This semiautobiographical work by Federico Fellini was the first film to bring him a measure of world attention.
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08/29/06
I Vitelloni (1953)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:22
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Five adolescent loafers in the Adriatic city of Romini postpone adulthood by idling in their home town. Fellini's elegy to the passage of youth reveals true insights through the characters of the... [More]
Starring: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste
Director: Federico Fellini
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Reviews for I Vitelloni
It shows all of Fellini's unrivaled virtues -- his lyrical sense of place, his abiding affection for even the most hapless of his characters, his effortless knack for limpid, bustling composition -- and very few of his putative vices.
11/13/03
Top CriticIt's my favorite Fellini film, possibly his most personal effort and by far his funniest.
11/25/03
Top CriticNo review available.
11/27/06
If you have warm memories of American Graffiti, Diner, Mean Streets or even TV's Seinfeld, you owe it to yourself to see the masterpiece that inspired them all.
02/12/04
This is one of Fellini's best character studies and films.
05/24/07
Though still realist in approach, its aura of bitter nostalgia places it squarely among Fellini's most personal and atmospheric works.
11/11/03
Although the plot moves between set pieces, its dramatic structure is centered on the characters, individuals caught between terminal stasis and illegitimate dreams.
12/02/04
Offers us the rare chance to witness a filmmaker becoming a master filmmaker, as well as the birth of an important relationship with composer Nino Rota.
06/10/04
Top CriticOne of Fellini's greatest films (and first international hit) is a poignant, bitter-sweet satire about a clique of male friends who refuse or can't grow up into adulthood. The movie had influence on Scorsese, Levinson Lucas and other American directors.
06/26/09
Besides being the film that most influenced Martin Scorsese's breakthrough Mean Streets, this 1953 release remains the last word on friendship and disillusionment.
12/11/03
Top CriticMoving from cafés to poolrooms to movie theaters, it's the prototypical male ensemble film.
11/11/03
Top CriticProof of Fellini's early genius as a storyteller.
08/03/04
stands alongside Amarcord as an earlier reminiscence of Fellini's life in Rimini
12/08/03
It was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini's shimmering, flowing poetic style.
03/25/04
Top CriticThis most poetic of films is suffused by a depiction of emotional ties that Fellini respects profoundly while revealing how they can entrap an individual as surely as a ball and chain.
03/25/04
Top CriticIt's as wistful and sad as it is funny and charming, with the first of Nino Rota's great scores to keep it burbling along.
08/07/04
What stays fresh (and enhanced by the beautifully restored black- and-white print) is how so many of Fellini's gifts and obsessions are already apparent in this early work.
04/23/04
One of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s.
02/19/04
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